Destiny
by Fritz Lang
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Actor: Bernhard Goetzke, Hans Sternberg, Karl Rückert, Lil Dagover, Walter JanssenDirector: Fritz Lang
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Bruno Mondi
Cinematographer: Bruno Timm
Cinematographer: Erich Nitzschmann
Cinematographer: Fritz Arno Wagner
Writer: Fritz Lang
Producer: Erich Pommer
Writer: Thea von Harbou
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); Japanese (Dubbed)
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC, Silent
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 114 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-11-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Image Entertainment
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Movie Review: "Love is stronger than death"
Summary: 5 Stars
"Destiny" is surely Fritz Lang's most unusual and memorable silent film, standing out from his very different commercial successes with popular themes about crimes and intigues in films such as "Spiders" and "Dr Mabuse" - and of course, his most renowned classic, "Metropolis". But "Destiny" is a world away from these, and in fact, it has a completely other-world atmosphere throughout, from its medieval-style European village setting, unusual and mysterious characters, and the frequent transitions from the real and present world to other dimensions. Described as a gothic fantasy, it is also a profound love story, and tugs at the heart and soul of all viewers because it addresses a universal fate and question: death, and whether our lives are destined to end at a certain time.
Along with visually enthralling scenes and haunting images, perhaps the most poignant part of this special film is the young woman's deep love for her fiance, whose life was taken much too soon. Determined to reclaim his life somehow, she firmly believes that "love is stronger than death" and sets about making a deal with the mysterious dark stranger who represents Death who dwells in another dimension, in a dark room full of many burning candles, each one representing a human life. It is his unenviable job to extinguish a candle's flame when God has decided someone's time to die has arrived, but the man called Death has grown tired of this chore and the suffering it causes people. In the course of making this deal with Death and Destiny, the desperate young woman is transported to three separate realities: old-world Persia with the charm of the Arabian Nights; Renaissance Venice and ancient China with all its rich traditions, but each setting contains the same tragic fate of lovers separated too soon by death which she cannot prevent, no matter how hard she tries. Fine attention to detail, costumes and exquisitely designed sets give these three other worlds extra vibrant beauty, and the superb musical score by Rodney Sauer and the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra heightens the beautiful, poetic and mesmerizing atmosphere of the film.
Destiny is far more than a ghost or horror story, or a fantasy with supernatural themes; it is a beautiful work of art, crafted by a master of cinema, whose work continued to excel in later decades in the United States in the Film Noir genre, but reached its creative zenith already in the silent era of Germany in the 1920s.
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